Picture-frame



(No Model.)

C. 0. BAXTER.

PIGTUREPRAMB.

No. 319,668. PatentedJune 9., 1885.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 319,668, dated June 9, 1885.

Application tiled August 26, 18S/i. (No model.)

To all whom t may concern,.-

Beit known that I, CHARLES O. BAXTER, of the city of St. Louis, in the State of Missouri, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Advertising Picture and Show- Card Frames, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, and in which- Figure 1 isa front or face view. Fig. 2 isa detail edge view.

My invention relates to a picture-frame for advertising purposes-as, for instance, a person engaged in a mercantile business desires lo send out handsome pictures advertising his business, and these pictures, to look well, require to be mounted in showy and expensive trames, which would be ornaments to private houses. To thwart the desire ot' persons to take the original or advertising pictures out of these frames and use the' frames for pictures more suitable for their private houses, thus misappropriating the i'raines, it has long been the practice to secure metal and other plates (having thereon in relief a-ud integral therewith the name, address, &e., of the merchant) to the frames; but these plates are often removed and may be substituted by others, and thus fail to eiit'ectual ly answer the purpose l'or which they are intended. To so produce or make these frames that it will be impossible for persons to misappropriate them in this way, or to so change them that they will not carry the advertising matter with them as long as they are ot' any value, is the object of my invention; and to this end my invention consists in casting these frames of asuitable composition with 'letters or words thereon, said letters orwords being descriptive of the picture or show-card which the frame contains, and thus they would differ, of course, to correspond Vwith the business of different firms or merchants.

Words alone may be used, or letters and words, as the case requires. They are preferably on both sides and both ends ofthe frames, as shown in Fig. 1, and they are preferably cast in relief, as shown in Fig. 2, which gives them prominence, so that they better answer the purpose for which they are intended, and cannot be hid by being tilled up as they could be if cast intaglio.

Suitable designs or figures may be cast In the parts of the face of the frame that are not occupied by the let-ters or words; but no novelty is claimed therein in this application, as it is claimed in my application No. 109,056, tiled October 15, 1883.

There is one thing that could be done with these frames,when they are large, by persons understanding the business, and that is, the parts of the frame containing the letters or words could be cut out and a small frame made out o' the four corners of a large one. This, however, I prevent by casting a monogram in one or more, preferably in all tour, corners ot' the trame, so that the corners would have to be cut out and thrown away as well as a piece out of each side and end, thus not leaving enough even in a very large frame, after new miters are made lor the corners, to make a frame of sufficient size to be of any value.

The monograms could be dispensed with in small frames, as there would not be enough left, alter the letters and words were cut out, to make a frame of any value.

These frames are ot' acknowledged value in the trade, and have come very largely into use for the short time they have been known.

I claim as my invention- An advertising picture-frame having descriptive letters or words and monograms cast integral with the subst-ance of the frame, the letters or words being on both sides and both ends of thc frame, and the monograms in the corners, as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I hereunto set my hand in presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES O. BAXTER.

Vitnesses: Y

GEo. H. KNIGHT, JOSEPH WAHLE. 

